My last post was, in fact, MCM’s annual contribution to the national celebration of April 1. Over the last eight years I’ve had a lot of fun with this, only occasionally (once, to be precise) going just a tad too far.
Rest assured it only happens once a year – the prank, that is. Going too far may happen a bit more often.
This year’s post was purposeful – for two reasons.
Rumors about the Feds’ purported interest in getting more involved in workers comp continue to pop up every now and again, as much as we try to show how this a) makes no sense and b) there’s no one in DC with any authority remotely interested in stepping into workers comp. The April 1 post was my attempt to highlight the absurdity of the ongoing ‘debate’; there is no ‘debate’, the Federal government is not taking over workers comp.
On a broader scale, I’d ask that you, dear reader, view what you read here and everywhere else for that matter with a healthy dose of skepticism. And while you’re at it, challenge your own firmly held beliefs. None of us has sole proprietorship of the “truth”, we all can learn from each other, but only if we’re willing to listen.
We now return to our regularly scheduled blog postings…
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What a prank. My guess is that you caused a small forst of trees to be cut down after half the workers comp world printed out your “end of the world” pronouncement.
“… I’d ask that you, dear reader, view what you read here and everywhere else for that matter with a healthy dose of skepticism. And while you’re at it, challenge your own firmly held beliefs. None of us has sole proprietorship of the “truth”, we all can learn from each other, but only if we’re willing to listen.” Amen, Joe! No truer words could have been spoken.
We’ll never get anything done if we all dig in our heels, insist that our OPINIONS are the TRUTH and close our minds to the opinions (and reasonings) of others.
Thanks!